Lanio

Lanio
	White-throated shrike-tanager, Lanio leucothorax
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Lanio; Vieillot, 1816
Type species
	Tangara fulva; Boddaert, 1783
Species
	Lanio aurantius; Lanio fulvus; Lanio leucothorax; Lanio versicolor

Lanio is the genus of shrike-tanagers in the family Thraupidae.

The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the fulvous shrike-tanager (Lanio fulvus) as the type species.^[1]^[2] The genus name is derived from the shrike genus Lanius that was introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.^[3]

Species list

The genus contains four species:^[4]

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Lanio fulvus	Fulvous shrike-tanager	Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela
Lanio versicolor	White-winged shrike-tanager	Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru
Lanio aurantius	Black-throated shrike-tanager	Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.
Lanio leucothorax	White-throated shrike-tanager	Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama

^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 40.
^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 285.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 219. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "New World warblers, mitrospingid tanagers". IOC World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 October 2019.

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